Project Manager / Business Analyst

Job Title: Project Manager / Business Analyst

Location: Austin TX (Hybrid Onsite Interview)

Duration:6-12months

Functional Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities to enhance business processes for greater efficiency and effectiveness, assisting in business case development and proposal preparation for information management initiatives.
• Analyze program policies and procedures to determine their impact on automated systems and functional business areas.
• Prioritize business value and strategic alignment by incorporating industry trends, risk assessments, business continuity, and capability requirements.
• Facilitate requirements gathering and analysis, working with stakeholders to refine workflows and system functionalities.
• Oversee the full service request lifecycle, including business requirements coordination, technical specifications review, system integration, and user acceptance testing.
• Manage vendor and contractor engagements, defining work scope, assigning tasks, and evaluating deliverables.
• Identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring smooth project execution and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Review and provide feedback on complex project deliverables such as design documentation, test plans, and risk assessment reports.
• Lead and manage project scope, change requests, acceptance criteria, and deployment processes.
• Develop training materials and conduct system training sessions for stakeholders.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in management information systems or business administration.
• 4 years Experience planning, eliciting, analyzing, and managing business requirements and monitoring throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) including regression testing. Validate requirements with Front office / Middle Office / Regulatory stakeholders.
• 4 years Experience leading simple and complex business process reengineering and transformation efforts that deliver efficiency improvements in quality and customer experience.
• 4 years Experience performing a business relationship manager (liaison) role between functional and technical teams.
• 4 years Experience leading project teams and/or operational and strategic organizational efforts that involved managing changes and stakeholder relationships, tracking and communicating performance, ensuring resource availability and allocation, coordinating third parties/vendors and delegating tasks.
• 4 years Considerable knowledge of public and private markets, investment concepts, terminology Experience with investment transactions related to: credit & hedge funds, private equity, infrastructure, private real estate, public real estate, public equity.
• 4 years Work with Operations teams, Trading desks, Investment teams, Software vendors and internal development teams to continuously improve technology requirements.
• 4 years Analyzing and evaluating complex investment information, technology applications, policies, and issues; and developing creative and workable solutions to complex problems and issues.
• 4 years Develop and conduct curriculum and training sessions covering new and enhanced systems.
• 4 years Experience working in a scrum master role or in an agile scrum environment.
• 4 years Experience with projects addressing some of the following fields:
• data management, data quality, data warehousing, data modeling, data migration and integration
• secure file transfers
• enterprise system analysis
• enterprise architecture
• information security principles
• 4 years Experience with investments management systems implementations and enhancements:
• Eagle Investment Accounting.
• Bloomberg financial data and transfer.

Preferred Requirements:

• 4 years Experience in a wide range of business environments including business consulting.
• 4 years Experience with a variety of system implementations and enhancements supporting business areas related to: building operations, finance, benefits processing, procurement, contracts, legal, audit, human resources, vendor relations, project management, and communications.
• 4 years Experience with MS Azure DevOps for requirements management, and project implementation.
• 4 years Experience with project management software.

• 4 years Technical expertise and experience in business systems analysis, system configuration, information security, and internal control frameworks.
• 4 years Technical expertise and experience with reporting databases, database design development, data modeling, mapping.
• 4 years Technical expertise and experience conducting enterprise business analysis such as problem/opportunity analysis, business case and business architecture development, feasibility studies and comprehensive risk assessments supporting value-based decision-making.
• 4 years Technical expertise and experience creating comprehensive system-level documentation, system implementation standards, and training materials for users with varied levels of technical understanding.
• Masters of Business of Administration (MBA), CCBA, CBAP, CSM, CSPO, PMI-PBA, PMP, ITIL, ICGB, or related.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex issues and propose solutions.
• Ability to analyze systems and procedures.
• Ability to write and revise standards and procedures.
• Ability to handle multiple projects.
• Ability to communicate effectively using excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate at all management levels and to communicate with both technical and non- technical personnel.
• Ability to understand each division s business processes and their dependencies.
• Knowledge of business analysis procedures, business process modeling and design, requirements and process modeling tools, and meeting facilitation.
• Ability to obtain and sustain the cooperation of others.
• Ability to provide excellent customer service.
• Ability to present a professional image and demeanor to internal and external contacts.